LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 190
Memories are like music; it’s the real good stuff that still holds up years later, still bringing fresh joy. Like great songs, they never get old.
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THINGS SOME PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN, PART 1
One of the best ways to pass a pleasant afternoon used to be to watch the freight trains go by and count the cars, sometimes two hundred or more of them linked together, needing five or six locomotives spaced every thirty cars or so to pull all that tonnage, wondering where they were from and
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DO AWAY WITH THE STATES
Maybe it’s time the United States of America just becomes United America. The hell with having 50 different states with 50 different laws and regulations. Every citizen of every state thinks of him or herself as an American before they are Texans, Virginians, New Yorkers or Californians. It has always been common for many Americans
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WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH PRIMITIVE ISOLATED TRIBES?
You see the videos of loin-clothed men shooting arrows at airplanes. You read about the loss of natural habitat for isolated primitive tribes moaning about them like they were Siberian Tigers or something other than human beings. You hear about such people being devastated by diseases that bother almost nobody else these days. They live
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GOOD TO BE HOME
Three days in a hospital and home again, just a little the worse for wear. A bit humble, but not all that much (sorry). Good to be home, back to my grumpy self, or almost there, anyway. Still a bit weary for full-blown irascibility. But still, it’s real good to be home and really good
BREAKTHROUGHS IN HUMAN HISTORY… SORT OF
Looking back at human history, there have many many watershed moments, and some very specific inventions and ideas that have advanced our culture and changed the world forever. In the realm of ideas, the Ten Commandments, The Magna Carta, the scientific theories of Galileo, Newton, Darwin and Einstein, the Declaration of Independence, the Gospels of
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LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 184
Crazy people are just fine with us as long as they are not annoying. It's the violent and screechy ones we tend to lock up. So if you're nuts, keep it low-key and you're good to go.
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HOW VERY PECULIAR…
Interesting story in today's New York Times. It seems the Russian Supreme Court (And who knew they even had one?) ruled that the last Tzar and his family are officially recognized as being victims of unfounded repression. Repression? Is that what they call lining them and shooting them dead, little children and all? Anyway, this
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